ReliefWeb

Highlights

• WFP has provided over 28,000 people affected by the flooding in Middle Shabelle, Hiran and Lower Juba with emergency relief.

• WFP is using prepositioned logistical assets, including boats and helicopter, to assist people in areas where road access is compromised.

• WFP has airlifted nutrition products to Somaliland to respond to rising levels of malnutrition.

Situation Update

• The food security and nutrition situation in Somalia continues to be extremely fragile: Over 1 million* people are acutely food insecure and require assistance and an estimated 308,000 children* under the age of five are acutely malnourished.
  Overall, 4.9 million* people are in need of lifesaving and livelihood support.

• El Nino conditions have led to drought in Somaliland and heavy rains in other parts of the country. In the southern and central parts of the country, rivers have started to overflow leading to flooding around the Shabelle and Juba river valleys and forcing people to leave their homes. In Somalia, a country that is still recovering from a catastrophic crisis in 2011, flooding and drought conditions will lead to a significant deterioration in the already fragile food security and nutrition situation.

• Somaliland is seeing one of the driest years in memory: due to severe shortages of water and the deaths of livestock, about 60,000 people are in need of assistance.

In numbers

500,000-900,000 people likely to be affected (not all requiring assistance)

About 200,000 people expected to be assisted by WFP